Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.
Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.